PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 5 years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with major emphasis on Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experience in various development methodology such as (Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Scrum, Scrum master, Sprint, Iterative model, Incremental model)
• Good exposure and implementing skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle.
• Worked closely with the Business Analysts, Test Analysts, Developers, Support group to ensure test environment and data readiness.
• Prepared the Test Scenarios, Test Plan and Test Cases for the Application under test.
• Experience in the different modules of the Quality Center and JIRA such as the Requirements, Test Plan, and Test Lab, Defects module.
• Well verse in database testing by executing SQL queries on different database such as MS access, Oracle.
• Knowledge of Functional tester with Credit Card.
• Interacted with developers and business analyst to understand the severity of the defects and assign priorities accordingly.
• Interacted with Test Team and other groups to identify, create and maintain Test Data needed for execution of Test Cases.
• Actively participated in performing various testing techniques like Functional, Backend, Smoke, Integration, Sanity, System, Alpha and Beta testing as well as.
• Conducted regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developer for the bug tracking and fixing.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing on various operating systems and various browsers.
• Experience with both Team and Individual work environments.
• Self - motivated professional with excellent administrative, communication, leadership, technical skills and ability to learn new technology quickly and efficiently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP QC/ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla

Database: Oracle 11g, MS Access, MS SQL Server

Business Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, RAD, RUP

Languages: HTML, C, C++, SQL,ASP

Project Management Studios: JIRA, Sharepoint, Team Foundation Server

Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro, QC

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and use cases in the initial phases of development.
• Prepared functional test plans for different modules of the application.
• Interacted with Test Team and other groups to identify, create and maintain Test Data needed for execution of Test Cases.
• Worked in creating the Test Plan, Test cases and executed the test cases.
• Tested the application and performed various tests like Positive & negative, User acceptance testing, regression testing.
• Have good exposure in performing verification and validation activities for each module.
• Involved in complete lifecycle of the application SDLC and STLC both.
• Defect Identification and created defect tracking reports till the close of the defect.
• Performed Regression Testing and Re-tested the application to check whether the defects are resolved by performing Regression Testing.
• Attend weekly and monthly meetings with team lead, team members and team manager.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated design walkthroughs to analyze requirements, functional scope, and use case documents for testability and created test plan and test cases that ensure fail-safe business.
• Interact with developers and BA to understand the design and technical specifications.
• Work with Business analysts and present the test strategy to the entire team in order to obtain the necessary approval.
• Create functional and integration test cases based on business requirements and design documentation.
• Experience in Functionality testing and analyzing reports.
• Designed conditions for entrance and exit criteria.
• Help to link test cases to require and ensure complete coverage through Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Implemented agile QA processes and practices, including defect and test management
• Responsible for running different types of testing like functionality Testing, Black Box testing, Security testing, Smoke testing, Usability testing, System Testing and Regression Testing on AUT.
• Used Quality Center to log in defects and also track defect status.
• Performed GAP Analysis using requirement traceability results.
• Performed backend testing using SQL statements to check database tables for validity of various business transactions and database integrity.
• Revise test cases for new and revised features and capabilities.
• Update managers and leads on various test reports after analyzing results.
• Create the necessary testing procedures and documentation and update on QC in compliance with the required regulatory rules.
• Perform Deployment testing on Production environment for each major and minor Release.
• Responsible for entering bugs into QC, track defect status and co-ordinate defect resolution with the developers.

Confidential

Jr.QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Analysis the Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and use cases in the initial phases of development.
• Managed multiple tasks through the testing life cycle including contributing towards the test strategy, the test plan, designed detailed test cases.
• Extensively worked Agile Scrum methodologies of the application.
• System Integration testing, Smoke, Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Updated test cases according to the requirement prerelease.
• Attended daily reviews and meetings for Verification and Validation of the project.
• Maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Prepared defect reports and interacted with developers for debugging
• Performed regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developer for the bug tracking and fixing.
• Obtained working experience with QC to submit and track defects and retest those defects in new QA build.